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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and the Gang,
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the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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<p><em><font color="#990000">There is no guarantee that your questions
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here will <b>ever</b> be answered. You can be published anonymously
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>help installing telnetd</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>touch files recursively linux mandrake 7.2</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Winprinters</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>your mail --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><strong>Search and Replace Without Breaking Permissions</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>your mail --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><strong>Kernel Panic after putting disk back</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Procmail and regular expressions....(Snowwhite...)</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Need to milk you again --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><strong>Timely Samba Release?</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>3d linux</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>linux vectoring synergy</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/10.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Why linux for routing</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>disappearing act</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>getting 2 dynamic ip addresses</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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<p>Once again, welcome to the wonderful world of The Answer Gang. The peeve
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of the month this time is a tie:</p>
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<li><strong>AOL users asking for help regarding things which clearly would
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not be answered by AOL's tollfree tech support by anything but closing the
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offending account.</strong>
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<br>Folks, AOL doesn't <em>have</em> a Linux version, not even for SVGAlib.
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The closest we can get are a zillion instant messanger clients,
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including Netscape, for which the universal trick is "tell it who you
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are on AOL, then start IM'ing your friends." If you can't figure
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out who you are on AOL, we certainly don't know! So, we can't answer
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any AOL questions at all. Even ethical ones.
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<br>
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<li><strong>Business people who want us to do <em>their</em> homework -
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asking very complicated questions clearly worth a certain amount of
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consulting time, frosted with an automatically tacked on "This message
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is confidential and may not be given to anyone but the intended recipient,
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legal mumbo jumbo, etc. etc." message which they may not even be aware of,
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and possible cherry on top "Please hurry."</strong>
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<br>Understand we're not really peeved at the person who's asking, so much
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as the presumption. <em>Linux Gazette</em> is for everyone ... to
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Linux just a little more fun ... and if we don't get to (potentially)
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give your answer to the masses, too, then <em>LG</em> isn't getting
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"paid" to pass your question along to us.
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<br>If you're a corporate type with an outbound mail gateway that adds such
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notes, and you're fairly sure your answer will be useful (maybe even fun)
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for the rest of the <em>Linux Gazette</em> readership, then
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<blockquote><em><font color="#FF0000">give us permission to
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publish the thread, up front, when you ask the question.
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<br>
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<br>Your company will still be anonymous. You can be anonymous too, if
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you say so.
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<br>
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<br>As for "hurry" -- if you want a timely answer, or even to be sure of
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getting one, pay a consultant.
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(Cheap plug: some of the Gang happen to be consultants. But not
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all of us.)
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</ul>
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<p>We could probably use a few more articles that appeal to corporate
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users, though! Enough of that, though. Onward to something fun. The
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fun I took on this month is to upgrade my system.</p>
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<p>Oh boy.</p>
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<p>Surely I mentioned that I've been on a continuous upgrade path of
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<a href="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</a> since early 5.1? No? Well,
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okay, I admit, I did a "real" reinstall sometime around 6.1 or so,
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and then have chugged along on security updates and adding RPMs from
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the latest 6.x branch for a while. With an occasional graft from
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Debian packages and source tarballs.</p>
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<p>Like any normal user I also have lots of different things I do, so
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my home directory's a bit messy, I have a few projects here and there,
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and I haven't been real prissy about which account I use to download
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general things like cartoons (Hi
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<a href="http://www.shanecollinge.com/Linux">Shane</a>!)
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or new kernel sources into. Usually I remember to move them to
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someplace under /usr/src eventually.</p>
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<p>As Piglet was fond of saying, "Whatta... whatta mess."</p>
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<p>Surely it would have been easier for me if I hadn't decided to buy an
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extra hard disk at the same time, discovered that my floppy bay stopped
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working (p.s. can't boot from my CD. Something to do with it being a SCSI
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device in an IDE system), and (eek!) was reminded that we'd like to get
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the column fragments in early this month.</p>
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<p>Of course, I was able to abuse about a CD's worth of free disk space to
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cover for this. I made the extra hard disk a feature rather than more
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trouble by installing the new setup solely to it.</p>
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<p>The install went fine, but it wasn't completely smooth. Here's a few
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hints if you're plotting an upgrade, and I promise, they don't depend on
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you using SuSE:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Decide how much stuff you're going to put on there <em>before</em>
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you lay out your partitions, so you have enough.</strong>
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<br>I ended up experimenting with <tt>parted</tt> after I foolishly
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made <tt>/usr</tt> a bit small (Hint: 2 Gb is <em>not</em> big enough.
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What was I <em>thinking</em>? Oh yeah. My old drive didn't use Gnome and K
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desktop. Now they're par for the course. Heh.) <tt>parted</tt> works
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great so far, provided you've had prior training with the "Towers of
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Hanoi" game first. It can resize partitions, and it can move them, but
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it can't slide them forward. I had this great wooden Hanoi game when
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I was a kid, and while I was juggling partitions I could almost hear the
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wooden clicks and swaps in my head.
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<br>
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<li><strong>Check that you're going to be able to use the same account
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numbers.</strong>
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<br>This is more of a biggie if you're completely changing distros, but
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it still applies. If you've created "system level" accounts for a
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database or something, and it wasn't a package designed for your
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distro, you may discover that something else expects to use that number
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now. Whether you move your own, or decide to do something about the
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interloper, things aren't going to work right until it's fixed.
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<br>
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<br>If you can't, and you're restoring accounts from a tarball, then
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just make sure you have the user and group accounts you need
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already assigned to their new numbers before you restore. Then
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<tt>tar</tt> will deal with the number change for you.
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<br>
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<li><strong>While we're talking about version numbers, check that config files
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haven't completely changed style during the upgrade.</strong>
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<br>If they have, you probably cannot just drop the old ones back in
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safely at all. In this category, I got off light... maybe because
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I'd already gone and upgraded a few things on my own.
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<br>
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<li><strong>If it's in the retail channel, it's out of date -- get your security
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patches.</strong>
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<br>The new version of YaST makes this easier, but I also had a few things
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of my own to add to the security plan.
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</ul>
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<p>Beyond these normal things, I really needed to get some of these projects
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into directories of their own, so it's clear where I should put stuff for
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those things from now on. Rather like ordering the teenager to clean up
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their room...</p>
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<p>Next thing I know the end of the month is approaching, and my dreams of
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handling TAG at a dreamy summertime pace are dashed again
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<p>I still think backups are your friend, but at least I didn't need 'em
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this time. All I need is more RAM and I'm set! The weather is
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improving and I'm having a great time. So here's those answers --
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share and enjoy.</p>
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<BR>Published in issue 66 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> May 2001</H5>
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